Tcl/Tk 8.2.3 Release Announcement December 16th, 1999 We are pleased to announce the 8.2.3 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is primarily a bugfix release. More details can be found below. We'd like to thank all those that submit bugs and patches as they are the primary source of information for us to identify problems in the core. Where to get the new releases: ------------------------------ Tcl 8.2.3 and Tk 8.2.3 are freely available in open source from the Scriptics web site at http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/8.2.html This web page also contains additional information about the releases, including new features and notes about installing and compiling the releases. For additional information: --------------------------- Please visit the Scriptics Web site. http://www.scriptics.com/ This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the core Tcl and Tk distributions, the TclPro tool suite, and much more. Thank you for your contributions: --------------------------------- As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl community. We have a page honoring these contributions at: http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/contributors.html Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.2.2: -------------------------------------- The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.2.3. A complete list can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree. The more complete ChangeLog is also now included with each release. 1. Bug fixes for http package as well as patch required by TLS (SSL) extension that adds http::(un)register and -type to http::geturl. http package is now at version 2.2. 2. Removed extra decr of numLevels in Tcl_EvalObjEx that could cause a seg fault. 3. Numerous minor big fixes, including correcting the installation of the koi8-r encoding and tcltest1.0 on Windows. 4. Fixed scan where %[..] didn't match anything 5. Fixed setting of isNonBlocking flag in PipeBlockModeProc so you can now close a non-blocking channel without waiting. 6. Prevented the unloading of DLLs for Unix in TclFinalizeLoad. This stops the seg fault on exit that some users would see (ie with oratcl) when using DLLs that do nasty things like register atexit handlers. 7. Fixes for 'expr + {[incr]}' and 'expr + {[error]}' cases. 8. Fixed expression error that could cause 'malformed bucket chain' error in tkEntry.c. 9. Fixed Tk_NameOfColor to work as expected. -- Jeffrey Hobbs The Tcl Guy jeffrey.hobbs at scriptics.com Scriptics Corp.